Welcome to the Kansas Chapter

of the American College of Nurse Midwives

Our Moment of Truth: New Health Campaign Challenges

Kansas
Women to Get the Best Care from Their Health Providers

It may surprise you to learn that the United States spends far more on
health care, yet ranks much lower than other developed nations in many measures
of health. Unfortunately, women’s health care is one area in which this is the
case. The purpose of Our Moment of Truth™
is to improve women’s health and maternity care in the United States by
re-introducing midwives and midwifery care as important options that should be
the norm for women’s health care services. The time is now for women
everywhere—including you—to understand how midwives partner with women to
improve their health throughout life.

Why Midwives?

Midwives’ skills and expert knowledge of women’s health care are often
overlooked. Many people don’t realize how highly educated today’s midwives are,
or they think that midwives are only knowledgeable about childbearing. But
providing care and guidance through pregnancy and childbirth is just part of
the range of services offered by midwives. Many midwives provide care for women
of all ages—from teenage years through menopause and beyond. In fact, many
women visit a midwife for women’s health needs before, during, and after
pregnancy. This is one of the unknown truths about midwifery that Our Moment of Truth is designed to
reveal.

Get Involved in Our Moment of Truth

Rather than telling you how you should maintain your health or who you
should be working with, Our Moment of
Truth™ encourages you to become aware of your health care options and make
informed decisions based on what’s best for your own needs and preferences. Our Moment of Truth offers education and
options so that you can seek the best type of care and provider for your needs
and improve your well-being through campaign information and resources.

By participating in the Our Moment
of Truth campaign, you can help increase understanding of women’s health
care needs and the types of services that should be available to meet them.
Let’s work together to make change happen—learn more about easy ways to get
involved and share Your Moment of Truth.

Our
Moment of Truth and the American College of Nurse-Midwives

The American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM)—one of the oldest women's
health care organizations in the United States—is the national organization
that represents certified nurse-midwives and certified midwives in the United
States. ACNM has embarked on an ambitious plan to help the United States
refocus on and improve women’s health care services and, as a result, women’s
health. With Our Moment of Truth,
ACNM aims to redefine how women understand the health care options available to
them.

ACNM, along with organizations representing over 700,000 women’s and adolescents’ health care providers, oppose all efforts to limit medically accurate health care information available to patients and to exclude qualified providers from participation in the Title X program of the Public Health Service Act (Title X).